Posted on 10/09/2007 11:58:39 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #8 – Dearborn, Michigan 10/09/07 - Official Discussion Thread
CNBC/MSNBC/The Wall Street Journal are jointly sponsoring the first Republican Presidential debate of the 2008 campaign focusing on economic issues. It will be held on October 9 in Dearborn, Michigan at the University of Michigan-Dearborn at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center. Broadcast is live on CNBC at 4 PM ET (1 PM PT) and re-broadcast on MSNBC at 9 PM ET (6 PM PT). CNBC's Maria Bartiromo and MSNBC's Chris Matthews will host the debate.
Candidates participating:
I know you mindlessly worship Paul and have ZERO ability to actually defend what he says, but quit kidding yourself that you Paulbots can just scream bile at people and get aways with it. This habit of yours of posting the above sort of responses just makes you, along with your god, look like ignorant, hysteric fools.
Still waiting for even ONE of you Paulbots to answer this.
Simple challenge to you Paulites. With NO slogans. NO demagoguery. NO sliming everyone else who doesn’t share your faith. Tell me HOW Paul would do anything. Here is his “Issues page”. NOT a word about what or how he would do anything. Just a bunch of slogans strung together basically screaming bile at everyone and everything.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/
See, you need us to support Dr Paul. We have no reason to support Dr Paul. So please explain to us WHAT and HOW a Paul Administration would do anything. Do that with OUT sliming any one. No name calling, no hysteric hyper emotive rhetoric. None of the usual Paulite personal attacks in place of reason argument. No cut and pasting of sound bite statements from Paul speeches. NO statements of what YOU think Paul means. REAL plans with documented links so we can read them for ourselves.
Thompson’s voice is a bit unsteady ... hopefully he’ll get more comfortable as this goes on.
Ron Paul pretty much believes we have one (a zero-sum economy) hence his love for gold and all things 18th century.
Rudy’s right about the line item veto...until/unless we can get SCOTUS to see it differently.
I think Duncan Hunter sounded good.
Fred is doing fine and your boy just got handed his hat by rootie over taxes. Fred is a mature and Presidential in stature.
LLS
Those two should just get a room and get it over with.
Only dims will show up! The rest of us are at work.
They need cream pies!
The same illegal Mexicans that can't get in because of the border fence? Or the ones that get busted on fraud and get deported for good? Either way, there won't be many illegal Mexicans left after this.
..are you watching?—I’m stuck here at work
Nope...trade with our ALLIES, not commies who use slave labor.
Interesting back and forth between Gov. Romney and Giuliani on their respective spending and tax records. Also, Gov. Romney criticising Mayor Giuliani for his taking the line item veto to court. Giuliani responds that it is unconstitutional and he is a strict constructionist.
That was beyond rich.
Brownback: will not raise taxes. Our tax code is an abonination. Flat tax. 16 countries around the world have gone to the flat tax. Increases revenue for the gov’t. Get spending under control; the system is built to spend.
Tancredo: will take the oath absolutely no tax increases. If you want to control federal spending, you have to deal with social security and medicare. Privatize SS or forget the idea of eliminating deficit spending.
Rudy: cut taxes 23 times. cut income tax ?24%. Tax cuts work.
Romney: need to cut taxes and spending. best tool a governor and president has is the line-item veto. Rudy fought against line-item to the SC, didn’t cut commuter tax.
Rudy responds: Romeny’s spending went up 8%, Rudy went down 7%, the line-item is unconstitutional. Taxes went up under romney.
Final Romney rebuttal: Romney is in favored and wants to see it applied federally. Need to cut pork and waste.
Rudy: you have to be honest with the people, the Line-item veto is unconstitutional. Beat President Clinton in court on Line-item veto.
I hope Hunter’s people are monitoring this thread and giving him high signs from the gallery.
Hunter, listen up...
Great answers. Now, speak up and keep hammering Romney, Rudy, and Thompson in that order.
No way he has any chance at EITHER the nomination, and CERTAINLY the election.
Reality is not easy for you DuncanDonuts.
Whoa...I didn’t know Rudy took the line item veto to the Supreme Court making it possible for NYC to get $250 million.
Interesting...
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